Suppose that there only exists the Infinite Mind. Since, in this thought experiment, only the Infinite Mind exists, nothing else can exist in its own right, can come into being from somewhere outside of the Infinite Mind, or can pass out of the Infinite Mind. That is, only Being is; non-being, necessarily, is not.

Suppose, furthermore, that the Infinite Mind, while remaining complete in Itself, “wanted” to experience out.

Then it would “need” to utilize “an instrument” that would make experiencing out possible. Call that instrument “the finite mind.”

The finite mind can be said to be the coloring of different ways of experiencing the Infinite Mind. “Perceiving” (the world) is one such way of coloring; “sensing” (the body) is another; “thinking and feeling” (the mind) is yet a third.

In this sense, the finite mind is like a painter coloring the Infinite Mind, the one Reality, in various ways ordinarly called “sound,” “sight,” “thought,” and so on. Each coloring–to mix metaphors–is actually but one way in which experience is vibrating in and as the Infinite Mind. So, you could say that the one membrane of Reality is rhythmically rolling with moment-by-moment peaks and valleys of vibrations.

When the Infinite Mind experiences out, it uses “the instrument” of the finite mind to taste, to play. And when the Infinite Mind returns to Itself (though, in truth, it’s never left Itself), all coloring ceases and thus the limiting factor called here the finite mind naturally dissolves in the Infinite Mind. This is sometimes called “recognition”: the Infinite Mind recognizing Itself as Itself.

The post began with a supposition: “Suppose that there only exists the Infinite Mind.” The only thing left is to find out whether this is true.